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[Malmsey Habitat v3.á] by Lucifer Messiah -- ANARKICK SYSTEMS
Released: Jan 20, 1993
This is a resident COM and EXE infector. The virus goes through extensive
measures to ensure that it won't be debugged. The technology I used has never
been used in another virus except Malmsey ][b, although it will probably
appear in most of my future viruses.
The encryption is basic as hell because I didn't feel like wasting time and
energy on it. I had a better one on it before, but opted for fewer bytes. I
don't see much worth in going too far with the encryption engine, as they are
all easy to crack anyhow. My virus, however, will not be so easy. I suppose
you could do it byte by byte, by hand if you really wanted to know what I was
up to.
There is a 1/30 chance that the virus will "go off" when the virus goes
resident. I have omitted the face routine that appeared in versions I, ][,
and ][b, not because of the virus length, but because it was becomming a
hassle trying to get the text and certain parts of the face to print out
properly. If I get that problem fixed, I will release a full version of
Malmsey Habitat v3.0.
This virus is not scannable up to SCAN v99. I haven't yet had a chance to
try v100.
In the making right now is Malmsey Habitat IV. Like version ]I[, It is going
to be using a technology that isn't used anywhere else. Your worst enemy will
be McFly's CLEAN, and other similar products. I have found a way to make
CLEAN more dangerous than the virus itself! You will be pleased.
Look forward to that, and another which will be out in a few months, called
HAL-9000. In principal it is like the DIR ][ virus in that it infects the
FAT and Directory, but HAL-9000 is totally different, and won't lock up under
DOS 5 like DIR ][ does.
Lucifer Messiah -- ANARKICK SYSTEMS